Chapter 1

Stories

 

At home in the Far Eastern Himalaya

Fifty women from Passu valley in Pakistan have been tending to a community seabuckthorn plantation, along what used to be an eroded riverbank an hour from their village…

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Pivoting to clean cooking

Households in Yunnan, southwest China, predominantly depend on firewood-based open fire cooking, which contributes to air pollution and deforestation.

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Organic agriculture

Promoting mountain agriculture for sustainable mountain development has been a mainstay of our work for decades whether it was through rangeland management work in Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan…

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A sustainable model of community-based flood early warning

The sustainability of risk reduction interventions is always a question when the threat is seasonal and when stakeholders in a shared risk environment…

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Diversification to reduce risks in large cardamom production

Large cardamom is an important cash crop for marginal farmers in the Kangchenjunga Landscape, which is shared by Bhutan, India, and Nepal.

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ANNUAL REPORT 2019

Contents


CHAPTER 1

Mountain inovations and community practices

Promoting and supporting innovative approachers to address change and build resilience


CHAPTER 2

Knowledge generation and use

Filling knowledge gaps and ensuring communities, government agencies, practitioners, and scientists use new data to drive positive change


CHAPTER 3

Gender and social inclusion

Ensuring that transformative change benefits the most marginalized people


CHAPTER 4

Building the capacity for sustainable mountain development

Amplifying positive change through improved human and institutional capacity


CHAPTER 5

Engaging policy makers

Enhancing the science-policy interface for evidence-based decision making


CHAPTER 6

Facilitating regional cooperation

Bringing countries together to address shared challenges as a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration


CHAPTER 7

Regional and global outreach

Drawing global attention to the HKH to place mountains on regional and international agenda